When it comes to the greasiest stains and the most difficult to clean, oil stains on kitchen range hoods should be in the top 3.
Why is kitchen range hood difficult to clean? This is related to the formation of oil on the machine, oil composition and lifestyle. Also, the composition of oil scale inside the range hood is complex and special, and normally the frequency of cleaning the range hood is low that many families only clean it once a month or even half a year.
Cleaning the range hood is a real difficult problem, including the outer surface of the machine, the filter screen, the oil filter box, the exhaust fan inside the machine, etc. Therefore, if it can clean up such these stubborn oil stains, the degreaser should be excellent for removing other stains as well.
Kitchen Degreaser is such outstanding product, not only remove oil dirt inside range hood, but also can be used for cleaning oil stains on kitchen gas stove, mesa, ceramic tile, table, ground, wall, toilet, cabinet, glass, pool and so on.
1. The cause of oil stains on the kitchen range hood
The special oil scale in range hood is closely related to the formation process of oil scale. The professional explanation of the formation process is, "When cooking oil is fried, it is evaporated and oxidized at high temperature, forming cross-linked network polymer oil scale. Then oil scale will float to the surface of range hood through evaporation and deposit to stubborn stains. Over time, it will cause a thick and strong adhesion of oil scale, tightly adsorbed on the range hood." It is a complicated process.
2. Mechanism of Kitchen Degreaser
In the light of the oil stains on range hood, we summed up the 3 big magic weapons in addition to it, respectively alkali, solvent and surfactant. Among them, the role of alkali is to make the insoluble oil into water soluble oil scale (saponification). The solvent's job is simply to dissolve oil. Surfactants are so familiar that they are indispensable in almost all cleaning products. In Kitchen Degreaser, its role is to remove oil and accelerate the penetration of cleaning agent to heavy oil, dispersing oil and so on.
Under the action of Kitchen Degreaser, the thick oil stains will transform to “water” by swelling, emulsification and dissolution, then most of them flowing down and finally wipe the residue on the range hood with a rag to achieve thoroughly clean .
2.1 Mechanism of alkali action
The high temperature evaporation of edible oil produces polymer oil, which is insoluble in water and difficult to be emulsified and solubilized. The alkali will saponify these polymer oils, greatly increasing their hydrophilicity.
2.2 Mechanism of solvent action
Solvent is the most important ingredient in the formula, and its contribution to oil and scale removal is also the largest. Simply put, the solvent has a good wetting, infiltration, emulsification and dissolution effect on polymer oil scale. It can make the oil scale of condensation gradually become loose, to swell and emulsify, and finally dissolve in water. The dissolved oil will drop automatically into the oil filter box with the Kitchen Degreaser.
2.3 Mechanism of surfactant
Because surfactants are special structures with both hydrophilic and oleophilic groups, it has decontamination, solubilization, emulsification, infiltration, wetting, foaming and other functions. In the Kitchen Degreaser, the role of surfactant is to speed up the solvent into the internal oil scale (permeability), to help decontamination (emulsification, wettability). It makes the oil easily break away from range hood surface (solubilization), increasing the action time of solvent and alkaline additives on the machine surface (bubbling).
Post time: Nov-08-2021
